Luciano Varela Castro is a senior Spanish judge, magistrate of the Spanish Supreme Court from 2007 to 2019. He was born at Pontevedra, Galicia, in 1948 and is married with four children. Career Luciano Varela Castro was a judge of the Audiencia Provincial of Pontevedra for 23 years, and has been a judge Spanish judge of the Supreme Court of Spain since 2007. Varela was a founder of the association Judges for Democracy and a law professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He created the journal Revista Xurídica Galega, a promoter of the use of the Galician language in judicial proceedings Varela has, in conjunction with other judges, encouraged many students of judicature, of which 40 are now judges and prosecutors, including one of his children. He was also the author of the draft law for the jury, which, after parliamentary procedure, was published in the Boletín Oficial del Estado with the official name of Law 5 / 1995 22 May, the Court of the Jury. Since October 2007 Varela has served on the Criminal Division of the Supreme Court. Among his many actions appears the case of Judge Francisco Javier de Urquia in April 2009 which determined that there was no crime of trespass but bribery, for which he was sentenced to 21 months of suspension from office and fined €73,800, the minimum provided by law. The case against Baltasar Garzon In 2009 Varela was appointed instructor in the case of the 'Star' National Court judge Baltasar Garzón Real. Garzón was charged with an alleged crime of trespass in the case of the Franco crimes, following a complaint by the labor union Manos Limpias, founded by Miguel Bernard Remón, which accused Garzón of knowingly issuing unlawful orders and or decisions In the first order dated February 3, 2010 Varela believes that Baltasar Garzón "... acted with the purpose of circumventing the legislature's decision on the rules for locating and exhuming victims of the horrendous crimes of the Franco era, knowing that they had been subject to a law of amnesty democratically enacted by the state of Spain, whose will Garzón deliberately chose to ignore or circumvent," and that this fact may constitute a crime of perverting the course of justice. In the same order, Varela, as the instructor, declared his court competent to process the case and ordered Garzón to testify as a defendant in criminal proceedings.